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“Ragtime” draws a portrait of America at a time of turmoil with broad dramatic strokes and emotional specificity, a high-wire act that might daunt the likes of Houdini—yet another character in the show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

Nor do they daunt the current crop of entrepreneurs, who are mostly recycling old buildings, not putting up new ones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

Temperatures were in the 20s at game time but its didn't daunt a red-clad crowd of more than 29,000.

From Fox News ● Mar. 28, 2022

Neither the science nor statistics of the new vaccine daunt them.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2021

A setback like this did not daunt him.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

But as he gears up to release his third book on Tuesday, Tweedy admits the task of writing no longer daunts him the way it once did.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023

But what he’s mostly done on hard courts is conquer what daunts him, by fighting the kinds of relentless battles that he relishes, as he did against a rising hard-court comer on Sunday.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019

Each of the eight huge prints dazzles and daunts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2015

It daunts her to consider the situation’s basic math, the impossibility of matching her supplies to their numbers.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2011

‘I do not know which daunts me more: Fangorn, or the thought of the long road through Rohan on foot,’ said Gimli.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

If you are not daunted by the amount of work needed to maintain grounds of this size, it is a mini slice of paradise on a sunny day.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

But Cain, an interior decorator for 25 years, wasn’t daunted by the chaos that came with such an extensive project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

The words of former champion and current world number one Judd Trump show that even experienced players at the top of the game remain daunted at the iconic Sheffield venue.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

Auto enthusiasts, often daunted by the increasingly complex and proprietary nature of vehicle repairs, have drawn momentum from farmers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

The scowls and threats of the guards when they arrived daunted us not at all.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

That's daunting, but here are four ways that experts say you can at least make a start on saving for a deposit.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

That is especially daunting to cash-strapped North Korea, which lacks top-shelf hardware across its military.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

“My work there has been halting, tentative and generally working around the fringes,” Chatfield wrote in a 1968 journal entry reflecting on the daunting task.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

He’s fit right in, making a now Shohei Ohtani-less projected postseason rotation still the most daunting the sport has seen in decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

If even part of what Van Eck said was true, the idea of one of them dosed with jurda parem was a daunting proposition.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo